SIEF Working Groups
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Archives
Chairs
Maryna Chernyavska, Kule Folklore Centre, University of
Alberta
Ave Goršič, Estonian Folklore Archives, Tartu
Tom Fogel, Hebrew University

Body, Affects, Senses, and
Emotions
Chair
Prof. Jonas Frykman. basewg(at)siefhome.org

Cultural Heritage and Property
Chairs
Prof. Kristin Kuutma,
Institute for Cultural Research and Fine Arts, University of Tartu
Ülikooli 18, 50090 Tartu, Estonia. kristin.kuutma(at)ut.ee
Dr. Anita Vaivade, Latvian Academy of Culture Ludzas 24, Riga, Latvia.
anita.vaivade(at)lka.edu.lv

Digital Ethnology and Folklore
Chairs
Fatma Sağır, Co-Chair fsagir(at)gmx.de

Ethnology of Religion
Chair
Anna Niedzwiedz, a.niedzwiedz(at)uj.edu.pl
Victoria Hegner, victoria.hegner(at)phil.uni-goettingen.de

Food Research
Chairs
Prof Patricia Lysaght,
UCD Delargy Centre for Irish Folklore and the National Folklore
Collection. patricia.lysaght(at)ucd.ie
Prof Hakan Jönsson, Lund University. hakan.jonsson(at)kultur.lu.se
Prof. Maja Godina Golija, University of Maribor and Institute of
Slovenian Ethnology ZRC, Ljubljana, Slovenia. maja.godina(at)zrc-sazu.si

Francophone Working Group
Chair
Dr. Laurent Sébastien Fournier,
Department of Anthropology, Aix-Marseille-University, France
Secretary
Dr. Alfonsina Bellio, GSRL, CNRS, Paris, France
Board member
Inga Kuzma, University of Lodz, Poland
Email: franconetwork(at)siefhome.org

Historical Approaches in
Cultural Analysis
Chairs
Katre Kikas, Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu: katreki(at)folklore.ee
Konrad Kuhn: konrad.kuhn(at)uibk.ac.at

Working Group on Migration and
Mobility
Chairs
Ignacio Fradejas-García, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Ignacio.Fradejas(at)uab.cat
Helena Pettersson, Umea University helena.pettersson(at)umu.se

Museums and Material Culture
Chairs
Prof. Hester Dibbits, lector of cultural heritage and course
director of the Master of Museology at Amsterdam University of the
Arts (AHK) & endowed professor historical culture and education at
Erasmus University Rotterdam. hester.dibbits(at)ahk.nl.
Web: www.eshcc.eur.nl
Dr. Lizette Gradén, Curator/Research Coordinator at the Royal Armoury
and Skokloster Castle with the Hallwyl Museum and Affiliate Associate
Professor, Dept. of Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington. lizette.graden(at)lsh.se.
Web: scandinavian.washington.edu/people/lizette-graden
and www.lsh.se

Narrative Cultures
Chairs
Helmut Groschwitz (chair, contact person) helmut.groschwitz(at)web.de
Petr Janeček (chair), petr.janecek(at)ff.cuni.cz petr.janecek(at)ff.cuni.cz
The Narrative Cultures Working Group is a platform for dialogue, cooperation, and networking among scholars in the fields of (European) Ethnology, Folklore Studies and Cultural Anthropology, with a special interest in the broad field of narrative studies.

Place Wisdom
Chairs
Prof. Katriina Siivonen, University of Turku. katriina.siivonen(at)utu.fi
Dr. Stella Butter, University of Giessen. stella.butter(at)gcsc.uni-giessen.de

The Ritual Year
Chairs
Prof. Irina Sedakova (Russia) irina.a.sedakova(at)gmail.com
Laurent Fournier
(France) laurent.fournier(at)univ-amu.fr
Web site: www.theritualyear.com

Space-lore and Place-lore
Chairs
Dr. Jiři Woitsch, Institute of Ethnology, Academy of Sciences of the
Czech Republic. jiri.woitsch(at)post.cz
Prof. Jelka Vince-Pallua, Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar,
Zagreb, Croatia. jelka.vince(at)gmail.com

Young Scholars Working Group
Chairs
Nada Kujundžić (University of Turku/Zagreb)
Ana Svetel (University of Ljubljana)